novel sensation to at once make acquaintance with the magnificent Pantalone Busdrago, the infamous Generalissimo Brighella, the imperious Olimpia Fantastici, and all the other dramatis persone of The Prince of the Hundred Soups. They will meet with their reward, and (we predict) become lasting converts to the Comedy of Masks. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson. Collected and Arranged by Henry F. Brownson.-Vol. I. Philosophy. (Detroit, Thorndike Nourse.) MR. BROWNSON's name possibly requires some introduction to English readers, familiar though it undoubtedly is in America. The late Orestes A. Brownson passed through many phases of philosophical and religious thought. Beginning as a Protestant of the Presbyterian type, he successively convinced himself of the hollowness of Protestantism, Naturalism, Realism, and Eclecticism. At length in the Roman Catholic Church he found that complete satisfaction which his ardent desire for truth had prompted him to seek. His numerous essays, of which the present volume is only an instalment, are directed towards the solution of religious problems; and the analysis of the numerous mental changes, though their rapidity is somewhat American, through which so acute an intellect passed, cannot fail to be of interest. The Angelic Pilgrim, an Epical History of the Chaldee Empire. By William Henry Watson. (Redway.) MR. WATSON is fluent enough, but (unlike Bettom the Weaver) can scarcely claim to have a reasonable good ear," or to be over dowered with lucidity. We copy a verse at a venture from canto vi. (" Pleasing Revelation" is its title): "How the fiery serpents came in great numbers, When they reached the Zalmonah Plains where they rested, Stinging their loins and their happiness encumbers (sic) With those slim creatures their abodes were infested, Destroying cattle and in confusion lumbers (sic), The poor people their faith was bitterly tested, When ordered to gaze upon the serpent of brass, By their faith the deadly reptiles from them did pass." There are 282 pages to this pattern. What more need be said? THE Midland Antiquary (Birmingham, Mason), in its third number, for March, continues to present an interesting mixture of things old and new. The Church wardens' Books of South Littleton, Worcestershire, by Rev. T. P. Wadley, supply some valuable notices of field-names, as well as many characteristic touches of the past, from the days of the "bright Occidental Star" to the period of "Anna Augusta." The Registers of Aston-juxta Birmingham are continued to 1617, and family history is represented by the accounts of the Perrott, Boddington, and Crick families, IN John Richard Green, M.A., LL.D., whose death at Mentone, on the 7th inst., at the early age of forty-five, we regret to have to record, Oxford loses one of the most distinguished of the younger generation of her alumni and England one of the most popular of her latest historians. Mr. Green's literary career, by which he will be best known to after years, has been so closely followed in our notices of his several works that it need now only be alluded to in general terms. Going up to Oxford as the holder of an English foundation at a Welsh college, Mr. Green did not find his undergraduate surroundings sympathetic. To this cause it is attributed that he never sought honours, a circumstance which we may be permitted to regret, for we believe that it left its mark upon his historical writings. Had the severe discipline of the Oxford Honour Schools been superadded to John Richard Green's wide reading, it is pretty certain that some of the "spots on the sun" which critics occasionally remarked in his writings would have been absent alike from his larger and his smaller works. His recognition, nevertheless, as one who has reached a high place among historians was both prompt and wide. His college made him an Honorary Fellow, but his highest academic distinctions came to him from a Scottish university. It should not be forgotten that Mr. Green's health broke down under the weight of an EastEnd parish, St. Philip's, Stepney. Flying south with the swallows, his life was spared yet a few years, during which he worked at the histories which gave him fame. Some fifteen years ago, Mr. Green's master, the historian of the Norman Conquest, spoke of looking to him as the continuator of much of his own work. Now the continuator has been taken from us, while his master is yet among our workers. Short as was the span of John Richard Green's life, he had made for himself a distinct place in the school of historians to which he belonged. We incline to think that, in some respects, his latest complete work, The Making of England, was the one that showed most of the very varied character of his reading. With some phases of medieval life, and with some of the races that go to make up the composite nationality of the United Kingdom, Mr. Green had little sympathy. His love was given to the Teuton and the burgher or peasant. For the Celt and for the knight he had little love and less respect. Longer study, had his life been spared, might have altered some of the intensity of his partialities. 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